I haven’t posted much lately, as my only access to the internet has been at work, and I’ve been swamped there. My home internet should be up again soon. My wife got a new computer for Christmas, and I managed to take down our wireless router trying to hook her up. I should have wireless for my laptop again soon though.

That said, I’ve still been able to plug into Xbox live. Thank goodness.

I was given Modern Warfare 2 for Christmas. It is massive fun. Sadly, my first couple days of playing consisted of my being slaughtered by 14 year olds who’ve been playing for a month and are already at 10th prestige. And it is true, dual shotgun guy is a dog rapist.

Anybody who says that MW:2 is “ultra realistic” needs to be smacked upside the head. Last time I looked, there weren’t a lot of teleporting ninjas running like olympic sprinters with a 100 year old ten-gauge in each hand on the modern battlefield.

My kill ratio is currently a pathetic .68, but I”m starting to get back in my grove. In my first match with my beloved old standby from MW:1, the P90, I managed to get a 19 kill streak. Running a chopper’s gun is a pure slaughterfest.

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I love MW2, but I’ve been playing Assassins Creed II since christmas. I’ll get back to it in a few days I’m sure. Send me an email and I’ll give you my xbl gamertag if you ever want to play together.

It would be funny to see the dual 1887’s function realistically, every other shot you accidentally drop one trying to do that spinny reload bullshit, sometimes you forget how the damn things work, and every couple games you break part of one and can’t use it the rest of the match cause no one makes spare parts.

Hell yeah, dual shotgun guys love to suck dirty dog cock, and the Chopper gunners are bastards! I’ve given up on shooting them down and just hide inside. Shoot me an email anytime to trade gamertags if you want.

You would not believe how much the Marines onboard my last ship bitched and moaned about how unrealistic MW1 was, especially after we squiddies started mopping the decks with them.

They were not just bad, they were atrocious.

I can only assume they just kept trying to do the things they were trained to do, whereas we figured out how the game actually worked, and exploited it as such. Those 14-year-olds are probably doing much the same ;).

Yeah, the flares always fuck me up, and I usually don’t have time for the follow up shot, but every once in awhile…. Yay! Kaboom! Kinda funny how happy I get when I shoot down an Apache, seeing as how my day job is fixing ‘em.

you just got to be persistant. you get 300 experience for shooting down a harrier which is equivalent to getting 4-6 kills depending on game type. so i have no problem getting killed 2-3 times for it. it would help if more people would shoot them down though

I figure being a real life gunny and playing MW2 is like being a real life guitar player and trying Guitar Hero. It’s a handicap if anything.
Needless to say, I SUCK at MW2 on live. I guess I just need to play more.

I can sympathize, it’s funny the most powerful gunmof modern warfare 2 is an antique shotgun. I myself was hoping the A-12 would be better after seeing it on an episode of Future Weapons but people seem to misunderstand that shotgun pellets don’t spray immediately after leaving the barrel. Wait till you get the Aug light machine gun, I have somewhere around 1000 kills with that beast.

MW 2 Spec Ops is my favorite part of that game. The wife got me Borderlands for Christmas, so I’ve been horribly addicted to that for now. Lots of guns + cell-shaded graphics + the ability to level up = WIN!!

That is why I play first person and let the tweens duke it out in multi-player. That and I use way too much body english, and often will fall out of my chair trying to dodge. Much embarrassing at LAN parties.

I snagged MW2 myself and the first thing I did was level up to where I could make custom classes and the first one is called the ‘MHI Kit.’ No joke. Primary is the UMP .45, secondary is the USP, which I might replace with the AA-12 as a substitute for Abomination. Frag Grenades, Stuns, and the Commando Pro perk so I don’t have to get in too close to chop some bastard’s head off.

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